Measure the activity patterns of older adults
Implement an effective activity-based intervention program for birth to 5-year-old children with or without disabilities. Gain insight into effectively building and maintaining early intervention teams and how to include families in the intervention program. Each of the more than 250 engaging activities contains goals in six developmental domains fine motor, cognitive, gross motor, social, sensory, and language.
The Sensory Profile family of products includes the best-selling Sensory Profile, Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, and the new Sensory Profile School Companion. The expansive age-range of Sensory Profile products allows you to confidently evaluate sensory-related difficulties in clients, from birth to geriatric. Sensory Profile Supplement and Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant are also available!
This set of six games is geared toward remediation of visual-motor skills in children ages 4 to 11. Adventures at Hand. is especially effective with children affected by dyspraxia, sensory integration dysfunction, developmental delay, and attention deficit disorder. It serves as an effective resource for occupational therapists; parents of children with learning disabilities and/or handwriting difficulty; teachers; diagnostic clinics, preschools; kindergartens; elementary schools; and early intervention programs.
Learn more about how occupational therapy in the form of sensory integration can help children with learning disabilities in this informative resource. This manual provides guidance to help children synthesize, organize, and process the information from the senses and environment to produce useful, goal-directed responses via the tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems. Information in the manual enables parents and teachers to reinforce therapy at home and in the classroom.
Obtain an AS Quotient that indicates the likelihood that an individual has Asperger Syndrome. Speech-language pathologists, therapists, parents, teachers, or siblings answer the 50 yes/no items drawn from five specific areas of behavior: Cognitive, Maladaptive, Language, Social, and Sensorimotor. The five subtest scores provide comparative information. The total score identifies individuals with Asperger Syndrome. Use the test to document behavioral progress as a result of intervention or to target goals on the student's IEP.
Increase your effectiveness in evaluating clients with orthopedic conditions. The Aston-Mechanics SM Method, the basis for this workbook, teaches physical and occupational therapists how to efficiently and effectively evaluate adult clients with orthopedic conditions and other alignment or pain syndromes contributing to musculoskeletal dysfunction. This approach focuses on the process of observing a client's musculoskeletal function in relationship to the entire body. This step-by-step manual is helpful in evaluating clients for alignment, dimension, and compensation. The manual includes — A pretest to assess the therapist's visual skills in identifying musculoskeletal dysfunction, 200 illustrations and photos.
Best-selling author Janice Janzen provides a helpful new guide for parents of children with autism. Written for parents of children recently diagnosed with autism or one of the pervasive developmental disabilities, this resource includes information to help them understand their child's diagnosis, the effects of autism on learning and behavior, and their role as an advocate. Also included is information on treatments and educational service options.
Facilitate function using techniques based on neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) principles. This manual helps therapists work with babies who have neurological disorders. It is written by the co-author of the best-selling book, Facilitation Techniques Based on NDT Principles. The manual provides step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrating positioning techniques and how to facilitate function. Take advantage of strategies for observing and evaluating infants' movements. Each chapter includes functional goals for using the techniques.
The Bayley Scales of Infant Development has been conveniently repackaged to include everything you need to assess motor development. The Motor Scale Kit helps you assess these skills: degree of body control, large muscle coordination, finer manipulatory skills of the hands and fingers, dynamic movement, dynamic praxis, postural imitation, and stereognosis. Motor Scale Administration Directions is a new component that provides all the necessary information to administer and score the Motor Scale assessment.
Develop letter and number formation by grouping symbols according to similar characteristics Use this developmental training program to prepare children ages 5 through 9 for handwriting. Improve children's spontaneous, legible manuscript letter formation and placement. Guide students to printing each letter of the alphabet and (optionally) numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6-8. Children will find the creative activities in this product fun and challenging. This program is designed for children who already recognize most letters but have had limited success in learning to form them. The manual includes a timeline for normal writing development, and 133 reproducible worksheets for use in practicing skills.
This brief, 15-item behavior rating scale helps to identify and classify children with autism and to distinguish them from developmentally delayed children who do not have autism. Distinguishes mile-to-moderate from severe autism. Includes items from five prominent systems for diagnosing autism. Each item covers a particular characteristic, ability, or behavior.
Comprehensively measure various aspects of participation or engagement in activities
Help your students from ages 3 to 13 succeed in the classroom through an integrated therapy intervention program. Promote students involvement in all classroom activities by providing the necessary adaptations and tools that will facilitate the learning process. Learn how to collaborate as a part of an instructional team. This resource provides multisensory learning activities and intervention strategies for children with learning disabilities, developmental delays, attention deficits, and traumatic brain injury. You'll also receive suggestions for strategies to enhance spelling, reading, sensorimotor, and mathematical skills.
Evaluate your adult clients' cognitive abilities with this standardized test. You'll have quick identification of general problem areas presented in a concise hierarchical approach. Understand the theoretical framework and the means to quickly and inclusively assess significant areas of cognition. Use it to establish a baseline as well as to validate treatment. Objective, measurable data facilitate communication between professionals so you can develop a holistic team approach. The Cognitive Assessment of Minnesota is an objective measure that helps strengthen your role in the evaluation of clients with neurologic impairments.
Combine two popular techniques in pediatric therapy to create the most effective programs for your clients Use this guide to help you combine the two most prevalent methods of treatment in pediatric therapy: Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) and Sensory Integration (SI). Focus on remediating sensory and movement problems that affect the daily activities of your clients birth to 12 years old. Create an individualized therapy program that is appropriate for each client, using the techniques you find most helpful. This exhaustive resource includes ample information about assessing and treating movement disorders and sensory processing disorders.
Assess memory capacity, strategy of use, and recall in your adult clients with memory dysfunction. Use with a variety of diagnoses, including — Head trauma, Cerebral vascular disorders, Multiple sclerosis, Depression, Schizophrenia, Chronic alcohol abuse. Based on sound current theory, this standardized assessment is easy to use. You'll have extensive reliability data, scoring, and interpretation material. A-level product; see Ordering Information.
Detect even subtle developmental deficits that can lead to learning difficulties.
Identify infants and young children who may benefit from early intervention. Identify children from birth through 5 years who may have possible delays in cognition, communication, social-emotional development, physical development, and adaptive behavior. Administer each of the five subtests separately or as a comprehensive battery in 10 to 20 minutes. Each of the five domains measured reflects an area mandated for assessment and intervention in IDEA for young children. Tailor the assessment to clients' needs by assessing any combination of the five domains. The test's format ables you to obtain information about a child's abilities through observation, caregiver interviews, and direct assessment. Obtain standard scores, percentile scores, and age equivalents.
Take advantage of up-to-date theory, assessment, and treatment of prehension from birth through childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Three case studies of children with cerebral palsy—spastic, athetoid, and flaccid—demonstrate normal and atypical prehension development. See the importance of their hand skills in home, school, and community environments—10 years later. Plus, find a new foreword by the pediatrician of two of the children.
Revised with updated theories of visual perceptual development. This revision of Marianne Frostig's Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP) is appropriate for ages 4 through 9 years and measures both visual perception and visual-motor integration skills. The eight subtests—Eye-Hand Coordination, Copying, Spatial Relations, Position in Space, Figure-Ground, Visual Closure, Visual-Motor Speed, and Form Constancy—are based on updated theories of visual perceptual development and can be administered in 30 minutes to an hour. The DTVP–2 yields scores that are reliable at the. 8 or. 9 levels for all age groups. It has been shown to be unbiased in regard to race, gender, and handedness with 1,972 children tested from 12 different states.
Evaluate the effects of aging and health status on driving performance with this new guide for occupational therapists and other healthcare practitioners. Addressing growing concerns about our aging population, this sourcebook includes information related to driver rehabilitation, implications of elderly and medically impaired individuals operating a motor vehicle, driving assessment, and intervention. Additional topics include: , Legal and ethical considerations , Adaptive equipment , Program development , Multi-media resource. It also contains useful reproducible forms addressing such issues as prescription referrals, driving habits, and other related areas.
Measure the cognitive abilities and learning potentional of children with special needs
Every Move Counts includes everything you need—assessments, intervention strategies, activities, recordkeeping forms, and carryover materials—to help you empower children and adults unable to use formal language systems. Reproducible handouts for paraprofessionals and caregivers are provided, along with a 10-minute live-action video.
Gain the knowledge necessary to effectively treat children from birth to 18 years who have autism or related pervasive developmental disorders. Incorporating sensory integration and neuro-developmental techniques, this book outlines treatment interventions through an integrated approach. The authors take a holistic approach to the treatment of children and adolescents who have autism or related disorders. They examine the interrelationship between the behaviors, sensory processing, motor control, speech and language, and functional skills of a child. They recommend sensory integration and neuro-developmental techniques as well as speech-language and behavioral intervention strategies.
Facilitate better movement in clients who have neurological disorders. Assist clients of all ages who have neurological disorders in reaching to their highest functional levels using the first "how-to" instructional manual on facilitation techniques based on neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) principles. This resource provides strategies for observing and evaluating the movements of clients who demonstrate problems with coordinated movement. It gives kinesiological reasons why clients move as they do and illustrates how to use kinesiology-based techniques.
Give practical information to parents with easy-to-understand reproducible handouts. Target feeding and nutrition concerns of parents with infants and children of all ages. Refer to this library of handouts for information on how to and what to feed children with special needs and improve home carryover programs with "parent friendly" illustrated handouts. Select from 195 reproducible handouts to guide parents in their understanding and implementation of therapy programs. All handouts are cross-referenced with a list of related materials to supplement educational activities. Customize recommendations by adding individual information in the special instructions section provided in each handout.
Take advantage of more than 590 pages of activities, ideas, and compensatory strategies Now you can have helpful ideas and activities that are reproducible and ready to use. These remediating and compensating strategies help you adapt regular classroom programming and materials for your preschool and school-age clients. Illustrated sheets help teachers and parents understand why a child is having difficulty with fine motor tasks. The activities and strategies give examples of ways to improve the child's performance. This task-specific approach also enhances children's self-image by helping them participate with greater success in school activities.
The CD-ROM version of Fine Motor Dysfunction offers flexibility and convenience for therapists working with preschool and school-age children with fine motor dysfunctions. All of the best-selling book's 593 pages are included on one compact disc, along with a user's manual. The software helps you develop and customize activity programs to better target the needs of individual clients. Tracking activities that have been provided and monitoring clients' progress are easier with the computer-generated results. Edit and print the instruction sheets with or without illustrations to give to teachers and parents for use in the classroom or at home. Create an activity program that includes an individualized cover page.
Evaluate children with unique behavioral problems who may have Asperger's Disorder and differentiate from those who have autism or other related pervasive developmental disabilities. Use in the assessment process, to document behavioral progress, to target goals for IEPs, and for research purposes. A parent or professional who knows the child provides documentation about the essential behavior characteristics of Asperger's Disorder necessary for diagnosis. Thirty-two clearly stated items divided into four subscales describe specific, observable, and measurable behaviors.
Use this scale to help identify and diagnose autism. The Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS) helps to identify and diagnose autism in individuals ages 3 through 22 years and to estimate the severity of the disorder. The entire scale can be completed in 5 to 10 minutes. Items are based on the definitions of autism adopted by the Autism Society of America and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fourth Edition (DSM–IV). The items are grouped into three core subtests, Stereotyped Behaviors, Communication, Social Interaction, and one optional subtest, Developmental Disturbances.
Work with teachers and parents to refine coordination in at-risk 5 to 7 year olds. Work in small groups integrating sensory motor activities with manipulatives for cutting, coloring, and writing. You'll receive reproducible materials including screening methods, 88 illustrated worksheets, alphabet worksheets, instructor aids, and weekly parent letters. Hands at Work and Play is divided into three fine motor programs spanning kindergarten through first grade.
Give families developmental activities for infants which fit into their daily lives. Show parents how to help their birth to 36-month-old children realize their fullest potential. Provide parents with reproducible activities to integrate all aspects of development. Plus, parents learn how their child is doing with six developmental charts summarizing normal skills development for each 3-month time period. Together you and the parent can refer to the charts to track the child's progress. Helping Babies Learn teaches parents how to observe and plan appropriate activities with their child. Parents discover how to use interactions to promote the development of cognition, communication, socialization, movement, self-care, and safety.
These informative and easy-to-use instruction sheets include more than 200 reproducible exercises and accompanying illustrations to use with infants and children with motor dysfunctions. The physical therapist may use this as an effective resource in home carryover for parents, classroom aides, and other caregivers of infants and children with motor dysfunctions, such as cerebral palsy or motor delay. It is designed to augment therapy provided by the physical therapist.
Provides a standard method for measuring an infant's sensory processing abilities. Helps therapist, early childhood teachers, and parents profile the effect of sensory processing on functional performance in the daily life of the infant. , Caregivers complete a judgment-based questionnaire, available in English or Spanish, reporting the frequency with which infants respond to various sensory experiences (Almost Always, Frequently, Occasionally, Seldom, or Almost Never. ), Provides validated and reliable scores as well as interpretation of results and case studies for your review.
Use this symptom checklist to screen your 7 to 30-month-old clients for sensory and regulatory disorders. Determine whether a child may have a predisposition toward developing sensory integrative disorders, attention deficits, or emotional, behavioral, or learning difficulties in just 10 minutes.
Interpret a child’s behaviors and plan appropriate interventions
Develop effective classroom intervention strategies based on sensory processing
The authors of the best-selling Pre-Feeding Skills bring you another invaluable resource for guiding mealtime experiences. The Mealtime Participation Guide expands on the participation experiences listed in the authors' first edition, Pre-Feeding Skills: A Comprehensive Resource for Feeding Development. This guide provides an extensive set of activities to guide you through the physical mealtime experiences, as well as imagined mealtime, developmental, sensory, and interactional experiences. You can complete the feeding activities individually or use them to guide group instruction. The guide is also helpful for training students, staff, and parents.
This short but comprehensive preschool assessment instrument will help you evaluate children for mild to moderate developmental delays. With the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP™), items are objective, easy to administer, and provide you with a broad overview of a child's developmental status in comparison to other children the same age. MAP can be used for in-depth assessments and for creating a framework from which IEPs and IFSPs can be formulated. A color-coded Record Form clearly delineates age-appropriate performance for each item. A supplemental Observation Sheet for recording subjective impressions of the child's test performance is provided.
Assess a child’s functional performance related to school participation
Now there's a tool for evaluating handwriting that addresses manuscript and D'Nealian print Use the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment with first and second grade students to analyze handwriting skills, including standard manuscript and D'Nealian styles of print. This test has normative information, substantiating its test/retest reliability. Use the test to identify how students are performing in relationship to their peers. It also demonstrates progress as a result of intervention. Scores are based on rate and five quality categories— Legibility, Form, Alignment, Size, Spacing. Test students individually or in groups.
In Just 10 weeks improve the overall quality of movement patterns in your children who are developmentally delayed. Use this challenging program to assess a child's level of motoric development. Easily create individualized programs for your students 4 to 12 years old. You'll have the same sequenced activities for eight motor activity stations including perceptual motor, manipulation, body awareness/stunts, locomotor, and fine and visual motor. Plus, you'll get an expanded introduction and bibliography.
Use this checklist to identify and understand normal infant development. As a companion to the best-selling Motor Skills Acquisition in the First Year, this convenient checklist helps you to identify the proper milestones for each month of development from neonatal to 12 months. Use the checklist to gain insight to the normal motor development and movements in infants, to monitor motor development over time, and to help treat infants with motor development delays. Follow a child's progress with up to 4 evaluations per checklist.
Find oral motor activities for improving articulation in one convenient source. Using games, rhymes, and manipulative tasks, this manual helps preschool and primary school children with hearing impairment, oral dyspraxia, and articulation problems. Children will learn verbal skills through oral imitation and motor planning. The games target higher organizational levels of motor planning for oral motor skills. Illustrations, photographs, and detailed instructions provide precise information for applying oral motor activities. Activities are appropriate for individual, small group, or large group therapy.
The Movement Assessment Battery for Children—Second Edition (Movement ABC-2), a revision of the world renowned Movement Assessment Battery for Children, can be used to identify children who are significantly behind their peers in motor development, assist in planning an intervention program in either a school or clinical setting, measure change as a result of intervention, or serve as a measurement instrument in research involving motor development.
This useful guide provides specific strategies to help change difficult behavior due to sensory processing issues in pre-teen children and to determine the possible reasons for the behavior. It is also applicable for older students who have disabilities and those who qualify for OT and/or SLP services. The book includes simple explanations of technical behavioral terminology and practical examples of many concepts and suggestions. In addition, it addresses distinct ways in which sensory processing and behavior strategies work together. The guide is based on the study of behavioral research as well as the author's 25 year career as a behavior consultant. A checklist helps you follow the appropriate steps in developing a behavior change program.
Combine in-depth assessment with training or remediation of gross and fine motor skills. This early childhood motor development program contains six subtests that assess the motor skills of children from birth through 5 years. The new illustrated guide to administering and scoring provides detailed descriptions of each item. The subtests are—Reflexes, Stationary, Locomotion, Object Manipulation, Grasping, and Visual-Motor Integration. Composite scores available include Gross Motor Quotient, Fine Motor Quotient, and Total Motor Quotient. The test contains new normative data representative of the current U. S. population. The Peabody Motor Activities Program (P–MAP), included in the complete kit, is the instruction/treatment program of the PDMS–2.
Achieve early independence through balance training. Make these guarded unassisted balance activities part of your treatment sessions and home programs. The activities, which integrate balance training with treatment goals and strategies, are appropriate for children ages 1-18 with conditions such as myelomeningocele, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or balance deficits.
Accurately evaluate functional disabilities with score forms and an easy-to-understand manual. Assess key functional capabilities and performance in children ages six months to seven years with this practical resource. Use it to evaluate older children whose functional abilities are lower than those of seven-year-olds without disabilities. Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) lets you measure both capability and performance by observing — Self-care, Mobility, Social function. To appraise a child correctly, determine functional skills in which mastery and competence are demonstrated. PEDI helps you identify treatment progress and recommends areas of new functional intervention.
Get your pediatric clients back on the right track with these strengthening exercises. Use these playful activities in your physical and occupational therapy programs to increase the strength of clients who have had selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) surgery, myelomeningocele, Guillain-Barré, spinal cord injury, or orthopedic surgery. You'll be able to customize exercise programs to meet the needs of individual clients. Save valuable time with reproducible instruction sheets you can give to caregivers, parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals.
Enable children to participate in goal setting with an innovative measure
Detect autism at an early age to begin intervention
Teach parents how to stimulate and develop motor skills in their children. This manual provides you with the appropriate therapeutic play activities. Use this collection of more than 70 reproducible activity sheets with parents of children birth to 3 years old who have developmental delays or who are at risk. Integrate activities into a family's daily routine. Easy-to-read sheets serve as great reminders at home for all caregivers. Clear illustrations and nontechnical instructions are ideal for parents with low parenting/play skills or who have limited English proficiency.
Use this early intervention assessment tool in a clinical or medical setting to determine if a 2- to 12-month-old child's motor skills are developmentally delayed. The assessment yields criterion-referenced scores and information that can be used to plan intervention and treatment programs. The results can also be used to document incremental progress over short time periods. The assessment is based on the dynamical systems theory and on the therapist's non-intrusive observation of the child's posture and fine motor abilities. The parent's presence during the evaluation is encouraged. The evaluation takes just 25 to 30 minutes.
Offers an in-depth look at the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Using a neuro-developmental treatment (NDT) approach, author Marcia Hornbrook Stamer provides a detailed, multidisciplinary book about the development, evaluation, and treatment of children with cerebral palsy. She includes information about the different types of cerebral palsy, the various systems to be considered, and general treatment strategies. Close to 250 line drawings are also included.
This essential resource, now updated and expanded for mealtime and feeding development. This newly revised and referenced edition, by the authors of the best-selling Pre-Feeding Skills, is a must for pediatric feeding specialists working with clients from birth to adolescence. The book contains 12 new chapters with information about mealtime roles and influences, supportive diagnostic testing, gastrointestinal influences on feeding, autism, sensory influences on feeding, children who do not eat enough to grow, foundations for mealtime, and oral motor skills limitations. In addition, all sections have been greatly expanded to incorporate current research, references, and trends, especially the chapters on treatment, tube feeding, nutrition, blindness, prematurity, and anatomy.
Learn from ten distinguished service providers about creating a classroom to serve preschool-age children with autism. The book's contributors address the structure, financing, staffing, assessment procedures, curriculum, and support services of their programs.
Develop a successful individualized exercise program illustrations of 433 exercises in passive, active assistive, active resistive, isometric, and stretching stages. This complete collection of reproducible exercise sheets, divided by major body area can be used with adolescent and adult clients with orthopedic and neurological involvement who need to regain strength and range of motion. Each exercise sheet has space for length of time to hold a muscle contraction and for the number of repetitions of a movement. Categories of exercises include facial, upper extremities, lower extremities, neck, and trunk (including breathing). Along with the exercise sheets, you'll also have a page of general guidelines for performing the exercises.
This book provides a practical resource for enhancing the social competence of children between the ages of 3 and 12 years. It emphasizes peer interaction with age appropriate activities for effecting changes in social and play behavior, self-regulation, communication, prosocial skills, and social decision making. Use the book for program planning for children with special developmental, behavioral, or learning needs in segregated or inclusive settings. Critical information is provided on the assessment of social behavior and intervention to promote it. The book also includes detailed strategies and activities that have been successfully field tested for promoting social competence.
Physical therapists now have an excellent resource to assist with children ages 3-5 years who have physical disabilities. Select from a variety of hands-on activities that are appropriate for small groups of children with similar abilities. The structure of the activities assists in the development of gross motor skills. The group therapy setting also encourages social interaction and increases self-confidence. The activities are also appropriate for carryover use at home. Reproducible activity cards with large type contain a description of the main activity, so that other adults can help the therapist conduct the group.
Help elementary school students with disabilities succeed by identifying their strengths and needs in important nonacademic functional tasks. , School personnel familiar with the student's typical performance complete the SFA. , Three scales are included for evaluating students—Participation, Task Supports, and Activity Performance. , Criterion cut-off scores help establish eligibility for special services. , Use SFA to facilitate collaborative program planning for students with a variety of disabling conditions.
This workbook provides a collection of more than 150 activities that are designed to help school-aged children who have sensory processing or sensorimotor difficulties. It's organized according to the systems approach, the themes approach, and the developmental approach. This excellent workbook is targeted to the occupational or physical therapist who works in either a private practice or school setting. The reproducible activities are enjoyable for children, and adaptable to groups or individuals.
Provide parents and teachers fun and easy activities to implement at home or in the classroom. This text provides hundreds of suggestions to help meet sensory and motor needs in the preschool to 4th grade classroom. Therapists, teachers, and families will find Sensory Motor Handbook an excellent resource for enriching the therapy of developmentally disabled children. The book offers a repertoire of activities for occupational and physical therapists to either implement or recommend as a follow-up to their consultation. Reproducible pages can be given to teachers and parents who will discover many fun, easy-to-implement activities that enrich opportunities at school or at home, developing sensory motor, gross motor, fine motor, and oral motor skills.
Gain a new understanding about sensory processing disorders and autism. This manual, developed for therapists, teachers, and caregivers of autistic children, explains the interaction between sensory processing disorders and autism. Information is provided to show teachers and parents how to help improve a child's responses to sensation using sensory diet and sensory motor circuits in the classroom, and how to teach motor skills using daily living activities such as eating and dressing. A sensory environment checklist is included for teachers and parents to use in determining the most effective learning environment for the autistic child.
The Sensory Profile family of products includes the best-selling Sensory Profile, Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile, Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile, and the new Sensory Profile School Companion. The expansive age-range of Sensory Profile products allows you to confidently evaluate sensory-related difficulties in clients, from birth to geriatric. Coming Fall 2006—Sensory Profile Supplement and Sensory Profile Select Scoring Assistant.
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Examine handwriting skills of children from preschool to third grade
Identify infants and young children who may benefit from early intervention. This norm-referenced measure of common gross motor skills assists in identifying children ages 3 through 10 years who are significantly behind their peers in gross motor skill development and who should be eligible for special education services in physical education. Two subtests included are Locomotor and Object Control. Detailed descriptions and illustrations assist you in administering the test in less than 20 minutes. Use the results to help you develop instructional programs, monitor progress, evaluate treatment, and conduct further research in gross motor development. All new normative information is keyed to the projected 2000 U. S.
Effectively with educators and other team members implementing a consultation modelProvide consultation to educators and work with classroom teachers to develop intervention plans for your preschool and school-age students with special needs. Assist students in achieving academic success and enhance their non-academic performance in the gym, lunchroom, and on the playground. The Consulting Therapist offers effective strategies and case studies to help you implement a consultative model. Learn how to apply your knowledge in sensory, motor, neuromuscular, perceptual, and psychosocial domains.
Determine the tone and posture of 4- to 18-month-old infants with this effective assessment tool. Use to evaluate infants who are born prematurely, treated in neonatal intensive care, affected by sickness such as meningitis and heart failure, or developing slowly. Improve your ability to assess infants with these well-researched techniques. You'll have scoring guidelines and a concise two-page assessment form to measure and score results. Keep your heavy caseload under control with computer-compatible forms. A-level product; see Ordering Information.
Find everything you need to know about creating therapy materials from common household items in this new resource. Make the items yourself, or include your clients in the creative process. Use the recycled therapy materials to assist clients of all ages with the fine motor activities, gross motor skills, and sensory activities described in the book. The activities are presented with a brief description of the material or activity, a list of necessary equipment, construction directions, and suggested uses and adaptations. The appendixes provide six lists to guide you in selecting activities for clients, based on age-appropriateness, type of activities, and skills addressed.
Assess quality of movement using this tool Lucy Jane Miller brings you the NDT- and SI-based assessment you've been waiting for. Now you can evaluate the overall quality of infant and toddler movement rather than isolated skills. Use this diagnostic assessment to measure changes in children, birth to 3 1/2 years old, who have atypical motor development. Obtain standard scores on five subtests and track change over time using individual growth scores. Test with confidence using this nationally standardized assessment. You'll have reliable and valid scores based on six years of comprehensive research. Consider the validity of parent-elicited play and naturalistic sequences of movement.
Give caregivers the reproducible instruction sheets they need for transferring and lifting infant through adolescent clients who have motor disabilities. Save time by giving parents and caregivers the easy-to-understand illustrations and step-by-step instructions.
This guide applies to all ages and covers the spectrum of autism from mild to severe, including Asperger's. Understanding the Nature of Autism provides information about autism from its definition through a review of learning styles, communication, placement, and program decisions, followed by the development of programs, management of behavioral problems, and assessments. As a primer in autism, it is an excellent resource for training parents, teachers, and program personnel for working with individuals of all ages.
This comprehensive and updated resource now addresses Autism Spectrum disorders (ASD), including Asperger's Syndrome and the various co-occurring conditions. It is appropriate for occupational therapists, teachers, parents, and program personnel in any setting, including those new to the field of ASD as well as experienced professionals looking for new processes and tools for solving complex learning and behavioral problems. The information and processes are suitable to those of any age and ability level. The book presents an integrated approach to teaching and intervention and incorporates strategies from recognized models that match the specific needs of each child.
Find theory, research, and treatment applications in one source. This first half of this compendium includes chapters by leading researchers in sensory integration based on the theory and research by Dr. A. Jean Ayres. The second half is devoted to clinical application of SI principles in treatment with diverse populations and the organization of this book makes it an ideal reference book for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists working with a variety of clients. This publication promises to be a popular textbook for university programs. Topics include SI Theory; Proprioception; Praxis and Motor Planning; SI and Visual Deficits; SI and the Child with Cerebral Palsy; SI and Fragile X; Autism and ADHD.